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GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR) GALILEO: GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online Proposing a system-wide approach to institutional repositories as well as a collaborative strategy for promoting open access to scholarly information Concept developed by Regents Advisory Committee on Libraries (RACL) in August 2004 IMLS National Leadership grant awarded 2009, Leads: Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) & University of Georgia (UGA)

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Institutions / Libraries involved Albany State University Georgia State University College of Coastal Georgia Georgia Southern University Georgia Institute of Technology Kennesaw State University Medical College of Georgia University of Georgia Valdosta State University North Georgia College and State University (SC survey)

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GKR project components Build a repository of standardized metadata harvested from Institutional Repositories (IRs) within the USG Hosting service for IRs at four USG institutions Establish IR-related services: copyright research; digitization; content submission; and preservation Partner with NGCSU to conduct an assessment survey of the USG faculty’s usage and perceptions of IRs Document and make available the GKR organization model to others interested in establishing statewide IRs Develop and implement a statewide and consortial repositories symposium and workshop

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DSpace Open source software for building digital repositories Capture items of any format and their associated metadata, distribute them over the Web (Google, OAI-PMH), index them for search and retrieval Customizable user interface (Manakin (XMLUI), based upon the Apache Cocoon framework) Community > Collection > Item hierarchy http://www.dspace.org/

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Special LITA2010 Cloud and Crowd! No cloud usage planned for this project, but blessing to experiment Cloud repositories being pioneered by OhioLINK DRC team New DuraCloud service from DuraSpaceDuraCloud Imaginary repository “crowd” features – Near-automatic export of media items to flickr, YouTube, etc. Automatic import of crowd generated metadata (tags) from external sites

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Giving back The open source way  Allows others to benefit from our time/mistakes/innovations, just as we benefit from others  Relieves some of the maintenance burden from our project, allowing the community to perform updates and fixes for us